•Late Samuel Doe Hundreds of people gathered today in rural Liberia for the state funeral of authoritarian former president Samuel Doe 35 years after his assassination, part of the country’s ongoing reconciliation efforts over its violent past. Doe’s brutal 1990 torture and murder were an early turning point in the two civil wars that killed [...
•Prince Johnson Liberia’s new defence minister yesterday resigned from his post just 10 days after being appointed, following a protest by soldiers’ wives, the presidency said. The resignation marks the first political crisis facing Liberia’s new president Joseph Boakai since his inauguration at the end of January, reports AFP. Boakai “has rec...

